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MNP regulation was passed by the telecoms ministry (Secom) in August last year. The cost for mobile operators to implement the required MNP systems is expected to top US$40million and will be entirely met by operators.

Data base costs - for small islands the database may be off-shore. Example – figures from vendors for an off-shore central data-base option would incur annual costs in the order of US $370,000;

The costs that each operator has to incur within its own network for implementation (several hundred thousand for the initial costs for each operator);

Note: Implementation costs are largely independent of the number of network users. This fact results from an absence of economies of scale which is the primary reason why MNP will often be uneconomic for small countries

The vast majority of benefits have been shown to accrue to those who change their provider and avoid changing their number;

Cost-benefit studies have shown that these benefits are now understood to have been OVERSTATED due in part to insufficient account being taken of the increasing ease with which private users can notify their circle of callers of any number change (e.g. through email and SMS).

Many users in the Caribbean have active SIMs with both Digicel and C & W;

Multiple handset ownership is a substitute for NP; therefore reduces the demand for porting numbers;

MNOs in the Caribbean lock their mobile handsets to their respective networks so that handsets can be sold at less than cost (e.g. Postpaid). NP customers could face additional handset switching costs which would reduce the demand for NP.

There would also be a reduced quality of service. Mobile subscribers expect certain services to be available , SMS/MMS, roaming etc. Where a customer switches from mobile to fixed and retains their number , the functionality will not be replicated on the fixed network;

To the best of our knowledge, there has been no implementation of fixed-mobile NP anywhere in the world where Calling Party Pays regime exists for the aforementioned reasons.

Barbados – Regulator undertook a detailed cost benefit analysis (current level of competition; costs of switching providers; considered whether customers actually viewed the inability to retain their number as a major inconvenience);